Shipping woes and a partial solution

Great idea! Thanks @whitestix  

Thanks! I like it!

That’s great info.  Thanks!

No, not anyone.  Just those who don't pack well.

Jerry

Pack well to ensure your package can be dropped from an airplane flying by without a parashot.

Partial solution might not work, because shipping company does not give a clap about you anymore.

Czarivey,

A nod to your comments above, yet I take as hyperbole the notion that a properly boxed piece of gear should be able to survive a fall out of an airplane.  That would be infeasible.  These g-force stickers, if triggered, dispenses with the inevitable assertion by a shipper than they didn't mishandle the gear during shipping.  How compelling the evidence would be is hard to say, but for $1.50, why not employ it?  

Better yet, just don't ship things. it is safer imagining they are being shipped.

Right, that logic is why I have a spare room full of gear.  I do imagine it gone.

@whitestix 

As long as it works, I'm for it, but the era of customer being right and the era of a good customer service is deeply shoved in the past. Now everyone trying to make you, the customer guilty and deny any liability. Corporation has BIG muscle and you have small. Lawyer will be on corporation side and on your side will be pretty-much nothing, because to hire a lawyer you'll need at least 100 times the stake of your shipping damage -- so you will lose no matter what you use.